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Duncan Spencer

Duncan John Spencer

Born: 5 April 1972, Nelson, Lancashire
Major Teams: Kent, Western Australia.
Known As: Duncan Spencer
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast


First-class Debut: Kent v Essex at Maidstone, 1993

Kent 1993 to 1994
Western Australia 1993/94, 2000/01

Schools: Kent Street Senior High School, Perth

Career Statistics:

FIRST-CLASS
 (1993/94 - 1994)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   14   16   2   200   75   14.28   0   1    9   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             311     40  1257   34  36.97  4-31    0   0  54.8  4.04

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (1993 - 2000/01)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   20   11   3    79   17*   9.87   0   0    5   0

                      O       R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling             140.3   680   23  29.56  4-35    2   0  36.6  4.83

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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He might only have been short in stature but, by the time that Duncan Spencer first hit the domestic cricket scene in the early 1990s, few players in contemporary memory had been able to produce deliveries of such blistering pace. In his debut first-class season with Kent in 1993, the English-born right armer made a huge impression, prompting no less an authority than Sir Vivian Richards (then playing with Glamorgan) to rank him as possibly the quickest bowler he had ever faced in his illustrious career.

Sadly, Spencer's own career did not hit the heights that such a start might have promised. Persistent injury problems, headlined by chronic stress fractures in his back, have not only blunted his effectiveness but have also ensured that he has not added to the tally of 14 first-class matches that he played with Kent in 1993 and 1994 and with Western Australia in 1993-94. He continued to play grade cricket around his battles with injury but his ills were so severe that, at times, he was forced to participate solely as a batsman. The pattern of frustration was only broken in 2000-01 when a spectacular recovery led to his inclusion in six limited-overs matches for Western Australia - the state to which his family moved when he was five years old. While he did not bowl with quite as much pace as he had generated from his uncomplicated, slinging action in his first appearances in the Warriors' colours seven years earlier, he played an important role in helping the state reach a second Mercantile Mutual Cup Final in successive years. Tragically, though, the effort which lay behind his comeback was also his undoing. Following the loss to New South Wales in the competition's deciding match, Spencer tested positive to the banned substance nandrolone - a substance he had used in an attempt to relieve his chronic pain. At the end of a much-publicised case in April 2001, he was outed from elite level cricket for a period of 18 months and thus inherited the unfortunate legacy of being the first player in Australian cricket to be found guilty of a drug-taking offence. (John Polack, April 2001)

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* Last Updated: Tuesday, 30-Jul-2002 00:52:56 GMT


 
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